trilobiteruss Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Say Bev, congrats on posting I was just thinking on how to post for you and I see you figured it out. You are well on your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 This is the fossilized limestone deck that I am finding most of the fossils on. This is the layered portion. Obviously I am under construction Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 COOL! The only known exposure of the Bev Formation! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 This is the "Dragon's Tooth" section of the deck. Most noteable are the two different types of limestone. "Fillmore County is all Ordovician and contains the Platteville limeston, Decorah Shale, Galena limestone and Maquoketa limestone. All of these formations are full of fossils. The quarry the rock came from is likely in the Platteville or Galena formation." Quote from Herb or Tim. The Niagra Cave guides call the really pitted layer the "Stewartville Layer" of limestone. Perhaps someone can tell me which layer that is as it pertains to the above layers? Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Auspex! You are sooooooooo funny! LOVE IT!!!! Bev LOL The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, this is the right side of the deck that I had made into a Mechanic's Pit. You drive over the top of the rocks and you can safely work on your vehicle. Rather common out West, but unheard of in Minnesota. So strange, in fact, the local newspaper came out to do an article on it last week... And you guys may have thought I was normal However, the reporter could not find anything on the Net about this style of mechanic's pits... Very safe, open air. I've seen them up to 6 feet tall! Often of RR ties. If you like to pull engines, you just build a western arch (two posts and one pole) back about 6' from the front and use a pully or winch to pull the engine or put it back in. With a board across the pit on the front and you can walk around the engine for top bolts and get under the engine for all bottom bolts. And your man stays safe Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, this is a closer look at what they call the "Stewartville Layer" of limestone. In which layer does this lie/lay/clueless Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, this is a rock next to other that is not of the "Stewartville Layer". Thoughts on which layer it is? Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, here is a fossil? In the right hand rock as you are looking at it of the mechanic's pit, which is a "Stewartville Layer" of limestone. Thoughts? Ideas? Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, is this a fossil? It is "cupped", like a depression? Friends have been using it for an ashtry Note top left side little curves... Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Is this a piece of trilobite or a cephalopod? It is in my speciman rock which is of that Stewartville Layer. Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, this is the specimen rock referred to above with the tri or ceph. Front side, at least two snails, note below the "D", other one is covered I think. This is the back side of the rock with a snail. Front side seems to be Stewartville layer, back something else. Bev Oh, Oh, take a look at the lower left side, a fairy Ring! LOL Look closer and you will see a fairy Door with a fairy entering on the front of the rock near the Ring. Bev's fantasy world! The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Nice landscaping! I'm not seeing a fossil in the "ashtray". The last photo looks very much like a cephalopod to me. The one before the ashtray may also be a septum of a cephalopod. Some closer/larger photos would be helpful. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I areee with Don. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Cephalopod is just too broad for me So... trilobite? snail? or squid type critter? The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Similar to a Nautilus "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 I found "Nautiloids". The one that looked the closest is a squid-like critter--Order Oncoceratida Family Cyrtoceratidae Informal Name Nautiloid Range Ordovician Distribution Worldwide Occurrence is two snail so not rare, but not common. Typical length 4.5 inches long. I'm I understanding correctly? Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 COOL! The only known exposure of the Bev Formation! :rofl: :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 So, this is the right side of the deck that I had made into a Mechanic's Pit. You drive over the top of the rocks and you can safely work on your vehicle. Rather common out West, but unheard of in Minnesota. So strange, in fact, the local newspaper came out to do an article on it last week... And you guys may have thought I was normal However, the reporter could not find anything on the Net about this style of mechanic's pits... Very safe, open air. I've seen them up to 6 feet tall! Often of RR ties. If you like to pull engines, you just build a western arch (two posts and one pole) back about 6' from the front and use a pully or winch to pull the engine or put it back in. With a board across the pit on the front and you can walk around the engine for top bolts and get under the engine for all bottom bolts. And your man stays safe Bev Well if you are normal you are in the wrong place with the rest of us! :blink: :blink: :rofl: We collect rocks in any conditions, weather, location (deserts, freezing conditions) yeah we are a normal bunch! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 Love ya Russ!!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta laugh at some of this stuff! I am just obsessing about these rocks! Here I am 11:30 at night uploading yet more pics! And I was doing that at 6 am???? Yah, the sillyness of it all. Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 So, this is a rock next to other that is not of the "Stewartville Layer". Thoughts on which layer it is? Bev The rock in this photo is definately the Stewartville member of the Galena Formation. The snails/gastropods that are most common and present in this rock are Maclurites. Trilobites in this layer are generally not present, but molds and casts can be found of larger specimens. Most common are the gastropods, cephalopods and Receptaculites. There is some variation in the color and apperence of the layers in the Stewartville member, so it's likely all of the rock that is being exposed is Stewartville. Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Here is an annotated photo of a quarry in S.E. Minnesota that exposes the Stewartville. The Stewartville in this photo is about 30ft thick. Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 Hi Don and Herb, Here are the "closer close-ups" you requested. Trilobite or ceph or ? Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 Picked this up this weekend because I no longer think I have a trilobite. Bev The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Hi Don and Herb, Here are the "closer close-ups" you requested. Trilobite or ceph or ? Bev The last item is a ceph. The first one though I think is part of a gastropod/snail. Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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